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WESTPARK, INC. v. SEATON LAND CO.

[No. 224, September Term, 1960.]

225 Md. 433 (1961)

171 A.2d 736

WESTPARK, INC. v. SEATON LAND COMPANY ET AL.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided June 9, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Melvin J. Sykes, with whom were C.M. Zacharski, Jr., and Joseph I. Huesman on the brief, for the appellant.

Edward F. Shea, Jr., with whom were Theodore Sherbow, William A. Agee and Sherbow & Sherbow on the brief, for Seaton Land Company, one of the appellees.

Z. Townsend Parks, Jr., with whom were H. Emslie Parks and William M. Travers on the brief, for the Cooks, part of the appellees.

No brief and no appearance for Russell T. Baker and Company, an appellee.

The cause was argued before BRUNE, C.J., and PRESCOTT, HORNEY, MARBURY and SYBERT, JJ.

SYBERT, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

In this appeal we are called upon to determine which of two development corporations has the paramount right to purchase certain land in Baltimore City from the owners, Joseph P. Cook and Herman F. Cook, Jr., and their wives, appellees. The appellant, Westpark, Inc., claims on the basis of its exercise of a right of first refusal contained in an agreement executed by the Cooks in 1954, while Seaton Land Company, one...

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